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When Burton sought the nomination last spring, the G. O. P. machine was set to roll him flatter than a pancake. But Burton, like Willkie at Philadelphia, stopped the professionals in their tracks. After his nomination, astute Harold Burton made peace. It took some making. As mayor of Cleveland during the city's relief crisis, he had cracked out right & left, had collided with such Party holy men as State Boss Ed Schorr and Governor John W. Bricker. When he was fighting them for the Senatorial nomination he had proclaimed: "If I am elected I will take an oath...
...restaurants spellbound as he harangued against the Jews. Last week psychiatrists at Manhattan's teeming Bellevue Hospital had what looked like a ghost of that earlier chance. Jew-baiting, Hitler-aping Naziphile Joseph ("Joe McNazi") McWilliams (TIME, Sept. 23) leader of the American Destiny Party, was 1) rolled flatter than a pfennig in last week's Congressional primaries in Yorkville (Germanic), 2) convicted of disorderly conduct for stirring up an anti-Semitic fracas, 3) committed by a judge to Bellevue's psychiatric ward for ten days' observation...
Sumner never tried to cajole, amuse or flatter his huge lecture classes, and he never talked down to them. He used to come crashing into the lecture hall like a gladiator into an arena. On the day of the Great Blizzard of '88, he stamped in wearing leather boots. For him, rubber boots connoted pussyfooting. "Gentlemen," he said once, "if Communism ever gets control of this country, you be sure and get on the Committee...
Second is the flatter A, or Hahvuhd, group, made up of Greater Boston boys of Irish-American stock. The third, a "namby-pamby"' Hehvehd group is composed of Middle Western youths who believe that this is the correct pronunciation before they ever come within earshot of the Memorial Hall bells...
Student backing has been flatter than a Lampoon limerick. Of every ten undergrade who get off the Huntington car at Mass. Ave. on Saturday night, nine of them don't go to the Symphony, and nine don't go to the local refrigerator, either...